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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

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“Wow you’re never going to believe the dream I had! An entire social platform was captivated with whimsy and camaraderie. There were cat paws and purple buttons that said Boop. For a moment we all got back the internet of our youths—joyful, absent of lifeless mass marketing and unrelenting discourse.”

#boop #boop boop

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every time now when i’m watching a movie i’m trying to think of a snappy little one liner review for letterboxd. i hate who i’ve become.

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#Slovakia apparently

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Vaintas (detail) by Leo Putz (1869-1940)

oil on canvas, 1896

#haha same

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what as mess what a mess what a mess what a mess

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damn

#dark academia #da #academia #literature #art #text #quote #from reading for my canadian indigenous literatures class #when your compulsory reading sends you into an existential crisis #love to see it #meaning of life #existential dread #I have to have something playing at all times otherwise I can feel myself slipping #my brain is a menace #on silence #and needing to fill it up

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yuan yuan tan photographed performing as juliet in helgi tomasson’s romeo and juliet by sf ballet archives

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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

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Sue zhao/Ryan O'Connell

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my hobbies include watching the trees sway in the wind, drinking warm beverages, walking to places, yearning,

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anarchism and god complex

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“They say the sea is actually black and that it merely reflects the blue sky above. So it was with me. I allowed you to admire yourself in my eyes. I provided a service. I listened and listened and listened. You stored yourself in me.”

Diary of an Oxygen Thief, Anonymous

#quote #diary of an oxygen thief #anonymous #dark academia #da #academia #dark aestetic #literature #romanticism #blue eyes

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Albert Camus, The Fall

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Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963